The forgotten diaspora [electronic resource] : Jewish communities in West Africa and the making of the Atlantic world / Peter Mark, José da Silva Horta.
2011
DS135.S34 M37 2011eb
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Title
The forgotten diaspora [electronic resource] : Jewish communities in West Africa and the making of the Atlantic world / Peter Mark, José da Silva Horta.
Author
Mark, Peter, 1948-
ISBN
9780511993213 electronic bk
0511993218 electronic bk
9780511989384 electronic bk
0511989385 electronic bk
9780521192866 (hardcover)
0521192862 (hardcover)
0511993218 electronic bk
9780511989384 electronic bk
0511989385 electronic bk
9780521192866 (hardcover)
0521192862 (hardcover)
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 262 p.) : ill., maps.
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DS135.S34 M37 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.892/40663
Summary
"This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Côte. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent to them by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. In Senegal, the Jews were protected from agents of the Inquisition by local Muslim rulers. The Petite Côte communities included several Jews of mixed Portuguese-African heritage as well as African wives, offspring, and servants. The blade weapons trade was an important part of their commercial activities. These merchants participated marginally in the slave trade but fully in the arms trade, illegally supplying West African markets with swords. This blade weapons trade depended on artisans and merchants based in Morocco, Lisbon, and northern Europe and affected warfare in the Sahel and along the Upper Guinea Coast. After members of these communities moved to the United Provinces around 1620, they had a profound influence on relations between black and white Jews in Amsterdam. The study not only discovers previously unknown Jewish communities but by doing so offers a reinterpretation of the dynamics and processes of identity construction throughout the Atlantic world"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-243) and index.
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Horta, José da Silva.
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Table of Contents
Two Sephardic communities on Senegal's Petite Côte
Jewish identity in Senegambia
Religious interaction: Catholics, Jews, and Muslims in early seventeenth-century Upper Guinea
The blade weapons trade in seventeenth-century West Africa
The Luso-African ivories as historical source for the weapons trade and for the Jewish presence in Guinea of Cape Verde
The later years: merchant mobility and the evolution of identity
Conclusion
Appendix I: The Jewish traders of Porto d'Ale and Joal: their relatives and some of their new Christian partners in Senegambia and the United Provinces and Portugal: a comprehensive list (ca. 1606-ca. 1635)
Appendix II: A chronological outline of the institutional proceedings against the Jews of Porto d'Ale and Joal (1611-1643).
Jewish identity in Senegambia
Religious interaction: Catholics, Jews, and Muslims in early seventeenth-century Upper Guinea
The blade weapons trade in seventeenth-century West Africa
The Luso-African ivories as historical source for the weapons trade and for the Jewish presence in Guinea of Cape Verde
The later years: merchant mobility and the evolution of identity
Conclusion
Appendix I: The Jewish traders of Porto d'Ale and Joal: their relatives and some of their new Christian partners in Senegambia and the United Provinces and Portugal: a comprehensive list (ca. 1606-ca. 1635)
Appendix II: A chronological outline of the institutional proceedings against the Jews of Porto d'Ale and Joal (1611-1643).